All Films

Mickey's Parrot

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

A parrot belonging to an escaped killer washes up in Mickey's basement. Mickey hears it talking and thinks the parrot is the killer he's just heard about on the radio. While Mickey is skulking about the basement, Pluto runs into the parrot, first hidden under the fish, and then inside a leftover turkey.

Swing It, Sailor!

1938 • 57 min • United States of America

Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.

The Fox Hunt

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald controls the hounds , and Goofy is riding on Horace Horsecollar, as the fox outwits both of them.

Beautiful Budapest

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short visits Hungary's capital, Budapest.

Outlaws of Sonora

1938 • 55 min • United States of America

Outlaws of Sonora is a 1938 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.

Moth and the Flame

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

A group of moths invades a costume shop through a badly plugged hole in a window and makes quick work of the contents. A male moth ignores his lady to chow down on a hat and she's soon seduced by a candle flame, which rapidly spreads. He notices her trapped in a spider web with the fire attacking and makes some attempts to save her, but pours benzene on the fire by mistake. The rest of the moths are summoned, and they fight the fire with water-filled bagpipes, an air drop with a water-filled funnel, etc., while our hero works to free his lady from the spider web.

Where the West Begins

1938 • 54 min • United States of America

Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a great actress by Barnes, who offers to buy her ranch, cheaply of course, so she can have enough money to get to the Big City. Barnes has Jack thrown into jail on a trumped-up charge of cattle rustling, and organizes a lynching party to get Jack permanently out of the way. Things get more complicated when Buzz, Jack's pal, discovers the secret of Lynne's ranch. How he engineers Jack's escape, and how they save Lynne adds suspense to a surprise climax.

Convicts at Large

1938 • 57 min

An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.

Call The Mesquiteers

1938 • 53 min • United States of America

The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack their truck for a getaway and the police conclude they are part of the gang, an identification which is just fine with the gang's nameless chief.

Money on Your Life

1938 • 18 min • United States of America

This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

1938 • 58 min

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Stardust

1938 • 22 min • United States of America

Songwriter Benny Davis goes through an elaborate buildup before he is allowed to sing a collection of his songs. He takes a group of his friends through his song-factory, and workmen break out in a rash of dances and song numbers. Davis then sings some of his own songs.

What Do You Think? Tupapaoo

1938 • 11 min • United States of America

An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island.

N or NW

1938 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends well, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.

Many Sappy Returns

1938 • 20 min • United States of America

Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.

Time Out for Trouble

1938 • 19 min • United States of America

Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.

Little Moth's Big Flame

1938 • 8 min

A 1938 Color Rhapsody.

Barnyard Romeo

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Goose goes to meet boyfriend rooster in the park but rooster is more interested in another bird.

The Awful Tooth

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

When one of the Our Gang kids finds money under his pillow after losing a tooth, all the kids decide to get rich by having all their teeth pulled.

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue

1938 • 21 min • United States of America

The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936.

Captain Kidd's Treasure

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".

The Major Lied 'Til Dawn

1938 • 7 min

We open on a big game hunter telling a little boy (a caricture of child star Freddie Bartholomew) stories about hunting in the jungles of Africa. He tells him a story about a day he was hunting there. The game hunter gets help from African natives to catch some animals, with some odd results. Sight gags include an elephant who can't remember something he was supposed to do, and the game hunter riding a elephant and having to "shift gears" like an automobile to get up a steep hill.

The Knight Is Young

1938 • 18 min • United States of America

June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believes that if she leaves the apartment, the landlord will never let her back in. The only way she gets food is when her friend, singer Earlayne Schools, brings it to her. One evening June sees Hal, a tap-dancing sign painter, painting over her knight. She explains her predicament, and he does his best to help her out.

Desert Patrol

1938 • 56 min • United States of America

When a fellow ranger (Julian Madison) is brutally murdered, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investigate the crime, only to stumble upon a money-laundering scheme in the works. With one eye on the killer (Ted Adams), Austin tries to unravel the racket. But keeping his true identity under wraps could be a problem. Rex Lease and Marion Weldon co-star in this classic Western from prolific director Sam Newfield.